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I’m traveling to Barcelona and when I leave the train and walk on the platform I receive a notification from Cabify (Like Uber/Lyft) referencing the station where I am.

I only gave permissions of location only when using the app, and I did not used it in months.

How is it possible?

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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Hated One has a couple of videos on how a phone finds you location - there are 5 or 6 methods.

Youtube https://youtu.be/WkmTxBTe52o

Bitchute https://www.bitchute.com/video/WkmTxBTe52o

I was going to post the link to his older video but it was made 6 years ago.

[–] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you, I’ll check the video when it get some spare time

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

Your welcome. I hope the vid helps.